Re: xfstt obsoleted?
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On 30 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote:
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> xfstt has suddenly started showing up in my dselect list as
> "Obselete"! What replaces it? I like truetype fonts in X.
What "Obsolete/local" means is that the package does not show up in the
list of available packages for download from the ftp server, or from the
CD ROM. It by no means indicates that a package is obsolete or shouldn't
be used anymore. For example, I installed apt on my Debiann 2.0 system.
Apt is part of 2.1, and was not included in 2.0 at all. When I look at
apt in dselect, it shows up as being obsolete. That's not because it is,
but because it is not in the Packages file (list of available packages)
that gets shown when I update the 2.0 package list. Dselect has no idea
where that package came from, so it assumes that it's either obsolete and
no longer included in the distribution, or it's a local package of some
non-Debian software.
I hope this clears things up for you.
noah
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